KNUST Electrical Engineering graduate has invented a Multi-Stage Rice Thresher for his community.

Mr. John Wobil, an Electrical Engineering graduate of KNUST has invented a Mult-Stage Rice Thresher which is reducing Post-Harvest Losses in his Community.

John is representing Ghana for the World Intellectual Property Day Competition Award, 2022.

His video has been shortlisted amongst the first 20 videos out of 142 videos from 63 countries.

We urge you to kindly vote for John to win the competition.

Vote for John via: http://bit.ly/vote4wobil

Watch the video of the Rice Thresher here: video

Personal Profile of John

John Wobil attended Asarekrom Primary and Junior High School and completed in 2010. He further attended T. I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School at Adansi Fomena and completed in 2016 as a General Science student.

Through the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), he got the opportunity to study BSc. Electrical & Electronic Engineering.

Currently, he is a rice farmer, an inventor, entrepreneur, founder, and CEO of Wobil Technologies company limited. He led his team to develop a wooden rice thresher (in 2019) and further led the team to develop a multi-stage rice thresher (in 2021) which is reducing post-harvest losses in Adansi Asarekrom community in Adansi-south district, Ashanti Region, Ghana. His (one active) multistage rice thresher has threshed 169 tons of rice, serviced 193 rice farmers, and has created 16 jobs. He is currently developing other agricultural machinery to ease Agriculture in Ghana and beyond.